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...farm people who participate in the nation's No. 1 industry will be told of the international emergency. They will be advised to change their crop plans from the five great domestic basic crops-cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, rice -over to the produce the world needs more desperately-dairy products (milk, eggs, butter, cheese), pork (and lard), beef, fruits, vegetables. They will not be told that they are entering the first phase of the most drastic change in U.S. farm economy since the invention of the harvester...
...July 1933 the corn-hog problem was a big chunk of the whole farm problem. Wickard became a member of a committee representing the corn-hog States, talked so earnestly in Des Moines that Al G. Black, then head of the Department's corn-hog section, was impressed. He asked Wickard to come to work in Washington...
...fast-multiplying "old American hillbilly type will send out his children to fill the vacancies in the ... Mississippi Valley and the corn belt, and eventually into New England itself." He "may not get as often into Who's Who but he certainly contributes more than his share to the Army and to those groups of Americans who accept 'American' value systems without question...
...Henderson's civilians will be the immediate losers. It will take over 4,000,000 tons of steel to build 10,000,000 tons of new capacity. (Henderson: "It takes corn to grow corn.") This means extra curtailment of civilian supplies...
Married. Charles Ray, oldtime corn-fed cinema juvenile; and Yvonne Guerin; he for the second time; in Hollywood...